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I wish this extension existed. I would genuinely pay for it.

I have an extension idea that I really wish already existed.

I do not have the time to build it myself, so I am basically putting the idea out there in case someone who does have the time finds it interesting enough to build. I would genuinely use it, and honestly I would be willing to pay for it.

The idea is a coding agent inside VS Code, similar to Codex, but instead of using an API as its main model, it uses the AI websites you already have access to.

For example, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or basically any AI platform that has a web chat.

It would probably work through two extensions.

A VS Code extension that contains the actual coding agent, and a Chrome extension that communicates with the AI website.

You prompt the agent from VS Code. The agent gathers the relevant code, files, errors, terminal output, project context, and whatever else the model needs.

That information gets sent to the Chrome extension.

The Chrome extension then sends it to ChatGPT or Claude through the website you are already logged into, gets the model's response, and sends that response back to the VS Code agent.

Then the VS Code agent actually performs the actions. It edits files, runs commands, reads the results, gathers the next piece of context, asks the model again, and continues the loop.

Basically:

VS Code coding agent → Chrome extension → ChatGPT or Claude in the browser → response back to VS Code → agent continues working

The browser is basically being used as the model provider.

The reason I want this is because I already pay for AI subscriptions. I would love to have something like a proper coding agent that can use those subscriptions instead of requiring API credits or another coding agent subscription on top of everything else.

And yes, I know automating web chats is probably annoying. Websites change, context limits need to be handled, responses need to be parsed, the browser extension and VS Code extension need to communicate, etc.

But the idea itself seems completely doable.

I searched for something that works like this and could not really find it.

So I am posting this less as "here is something I am building" and more as "please, someone build this because I want to use it" lol.

If someone made a solid version of this, I would happily pay for it.

And if something like this already exists, please tell me what it is.

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u/FIRST_TIMER_BWSC — 17 hours ago
▲ 6 r/highschool

A question to American students

For people who went to high school in the US, how accurate are American movies and TV shows about high school life? Like, are things such as cliques, popular kids, bullying, parties, dating, prom, and school sports actually that common, or is most of it exaggerated for movies? I’ve always wondered (as someone who has never been in the US) how close it is to real life.

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u/FIRST_TIMER_BWSC — 5 days ago
▲ 11 r/chrome_extensions

I just reached 100 users today!

Hey everyone,

I published my Chrome extension back in March, and today I finally hit the 100-user cap.

It has been around three months now, and the extension is still completely free. I have done no marketing at all. No ads, no social media push, no launch campaign, nothing. As far as I can tell, all the growth has come naturally from the Chrome Web Store.

Out of the 100 users, I would say around 70 are genuinely active. The other 30 are very low activity... maybe using it once a week, or even once every few weeks.

From those 70 active users, around 30 are what I would call power users. They use the extension almost every day. The rest use it around three to four times per week.

This makes me think that the extension is solving a real problem. People are finding it, installing it, and actually coming back to use it without me having to convince them through marketing.

I know 100 users is not a massive number, and I know some extensions reach thousands of users in the same amount of time. But I also assume many of those are doing active marketing, while in my case the growth has been fully organic.

Now I am wondering when the right time is to introduce paid plans.

The paid plan would not lock away the core extension or affect normal usage. I want the extension to remain fully usable for free. The only paid feature I am considering is cloud sync (basically a nice extra for people who want it, but not something required to use the extension properly).

So I wanted to ask:

When do you think it makes sense to introduce a paid plan for a small but organically growing extension?

Would love to hear your thoughts, especially from people who have launched or monetized browser extensions before.

u/FIRST_TIMER_BWSC — 2 months ago